Logan Gray

BYU

Sep 27 (Sat)

8:15 PM

Position:
Wide Receiver
Height:
6-2
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Columbia, Mo.
High School:
Rock Bridge/Georgia

AT COLORADO: 2011 (Sr./Gr.)He played in all 13 games, including three starts (Washington, USC, Utah), finishing sixth on the team in receptions with 18 for 300 yards (a 16.7 average; that was a team best, while the gross yards was fifth). He caught at least one pass in nine games, with season highs of four for 93 yards at Arizona State, which included a 53-yard catch, the fourth longest play from scrimmage by Colorado on the season. He caught three balls twice, at Stanford (for 38 yards) and at Washington (for 47), with his other top yardage game against Oregon (two for 50). He worked his way on to the punt return unit the second half of the year, fielding four punts for 13 yards (3.3 avg.), with a long return of eight yards. He also earned four special teams points, all coming on knockdown blocks on the kickoff return unit. He enrolled at Colorado as a graduate student for summer classes, taking advantage of an NCAA rule that grants a fifth year of football if you graduate within four years at your original college institution and the desired postgraduate degree program doesn’t exist at that school.

AT GEORGIA: He earned three letters at Georgia after redshirted as a true freshman; in his four years as a Bulldog, UGA was 35-17 and participated in four bowl games, winning three (2008 Sugar, 2009 Capital One, 2009 Independence). He saw action in 38 games (no starts), including the CU-UGA game in Boulder in 2010, returning a punt for 1 yard.

2010 (Jr.)He moved to wide receiver for the Bulldogs in the fall after battling for UGA’s starting quarterback job in spring drills; he was 10-of-17 for 132 yards and a touchdown in the G-Day game. He played in all 13 games, mainly at receiver but also returning punts on occasion. He caught nine passes for 105 yards and a touchdown on the year, all but one catch coming in the first four games of the year while teammate A.J. Green served a four-game suspension. He opened the year with two catches for 32 yards, including a 26-yard touchdown pass from Hutson Mason in a 55-7 win over Louisiana-Lafayette. He had season highs of three receptions for 42 yards against Mississippi State and also had two grabs for 22 yards versus South Carolina.

2009 (Soph.)He was in 12 games, on offense and/or special teams, completing 5-of-12 passes for 31 yards with two interceptions. The most action he saw at quarterback came in a 38-0 homecoming win over Tennessee Tech, when he was 4-of-5 for 25 yards with a pick along with five rushes for 32 yards. At the end of spring drills, he was named the Biggest Surprise of Spring on offense (he was 9-of-13 for 91 yards in the G-Day game) and also earned the Larry Munson Football Scholarship Award.

2008 (Fr.-RS)He was named one of UGA’s Newcomer of the Year Award winner for special teams, as he appeared in all 13 games, returning six punts for 72 yards with a long of 17 against hated-rival and No. 18 Georgia Tech. He also rushed twice for 21 yards, both carries in the opener against Georgia Southern.

2007 (Fr.)Redshirted; he practiced all season at quarterback.

HIGH SCHOOLAs a senior, he was a PrepStar and SuperPrep All-American, while also making the ESPN Top 150 as the No. 7 rated quarterback in the nation; SuperPrep ranked him as the top quarterback and No. 7 overall prospect on its All-Midlands Team (the six ahead of him included current Buff OG Ryan Miller, Nebraska WR Niles Paul and Oklahoma WR Ryan Broyles). Rivals.com ranked him as the No. 2 prospect in the state of Missouri and the No. 10 QB in the country, Scout.com named him the quarterback on its Hot Midwest 100 team, while Tom Lemming also named him to his Top 100 squad; he also participated in the prestigious Elite 11 QB camp. He earned first-team All-State (Class 6) honors as a senior. A three-year starter at quarterback who also played some receiver as a prep, he threw for a school record 53 career touchdowns with 5,734 yards; he had 1,549 yards and 12 TDs as a senior, rarely playing an entire game (also six rushing scores), with 2,169 yards and 25 touchdowns as a junior and 2,016 yards and 16 TDs as a sophomore. RBHS was 9-1 his senior year under coach A.J. Odofile, the former Missouri Tiger. He also lettered four times in basketball (rated as one of the state’s top seniors by Missouri Sports Online) and track (sprints, relays and long jump).

ACADEMICSHe was admitted into CU’s School of Education and is enrolled in the Curriculum & Instruction (C & I) Master’s program; he is looking at a spring 2013 graduation date. He graduated in May 2011 from the University of Georgia with a B.A. degree in Speech Communication. A two-time Academic All-SEC team member and an honor roll student in high school.

PERSONALHe was born October 31, 1988 in Columbia, Mo. His hobbies including playing golf; his best score is in the lows 80 on several occasions. His younger brother, Quinn, is a CU sophomore, one of the factors in his selecting CU for graduate school.

Receiving							High Games
Season	G	No.	Yds.	Avg.	TD	Long	Rec	Yds
2008 (at Georgia)	13	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2009 (at Georgia)	12	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2010 (at Georgia)	13	9	105	11.7	1	26	3	42
2011 (at CU)	13	18	300	16.7	0	53	4	93
Totals	51	27	405	15.0	1	53	4	93
ADDITIONAL STATISTICSPassing: 12-5-2, 31, 0 TD, 10 long (2009); Rushing: 2-21, 10.5 avg., 0 TD, 16 long (2008); 9-35, 3.9 avg., 0 TD, 20 long (2009); 1-5, 5.0 avg., 0 TD (2010). Punt Returns: 6-72, 12.0 avg., 0 TD, 17 long (2008); 1-minus 2, -2.0 avg., (2009); 6-39, 6.5 avg., 0 TD, 25 long (2010); 4-13, 3.3 avg., 0 TD, 8 long (2010).